President Donald Trump tweets about "fake news" a hell of a lot,Hot Airlines Porn Movie but the most recent rendition of this trope broke through his general drone.

Early Thursday morning he screamed about the issue onto Twitter.

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Trump threatens press freedom every time he disparages reporting he doesn't like by condemning it as "fake," but many people saw the call to investigate journalists as a much more significant form of attempted repression.

Many reminded the president that targeting news outlets for reporting information not friendly to the administration would violate the First Amendment.

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One of the president's most aggressive pastimes is attacking the press when a story he hates is bouncing around the internet and TV news.

This week's story has Trump particularly riled up at NBC, which reported that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Trump a "moron" after a meeting on July 20.

When asked about the "moron" incident on Wednesday, Tillerson didn't deny it.

The Senate Intelligence Committee is just one group looking into the connections between the Russian government and the Trump campaign and administration. The president, if you haven't heard, would like all these investigations to go away.

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